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W/T/VESSES IN l/EN TOR ARNOLD SGHARER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

MARGEL WAVER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 21, 1919.

Application filed November 15, 1917. Serial No. 202,236.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ARNOLD SoHARER, a citizen of the Republic of Switzerland, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and .State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Marcel Waver, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are: To provide means for retaining the wave produced in hair; to provide means for waving hair without heating the same; to provide a device for accomplishing the abovestated purposes, which is simple in form and easily cleansed and maintained sanitary; and to provide a device for accomplishing the purposes set forth, the parts whereof are adapted to yield to prevent breakage when accommodating various thicknesses of strands of hair.

Drawings.

Description.

' As seen in the drawings, the waver has a thin blade 9, which is pivotally connected,

by means of a pin 10 to a handle 11. The handle 11 has resilient sides 12, which are separated to form the space 13, which normally the blade 9 substantially fills when closed or disposed therein as seen best in Fig. 3 of the drawings. In its closed position, the blade 9 is held by small nibs 14; extended from the inner edges of the sides 12 adjacent the closed end of the handle 11. The nibs 14 register with and engage indents 15 in the free end of the blade 9. The blade 9 and handle 11 of the waver are both preferably constructed of tortoise shell. It will be understood, however, that other materials may be substituted therefor.

When using the waver for making the so-called Marcelwave, the hair is drawn, as seen best in Fig. 2 of the drawings, to a strand, and the blade 9 is placed diagonally across the strand. When the sides 12 are closed, the sharpened edge of the blade 9 insures the production of a ridge in the strand of hair. When a second waver is placed on the same strand at the desired distance from the first, the blade 9 is introduced beneath the strand at a relatively opposite angle.

When the wavers are disposed on the head, they are held in relatively parallel relation, such as shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings. The intermediate hair or hair between the wavers, will be found to be bent in relatively curved layers producing the peculiarity of the so-called Marcel wave.

The lock formed by the indents 15 and the nibs 14 is sufliciently positive to prevent the separation of the blade 9 from the enfolding sides 12.

Claim.

ing indents and corresponding projections integrally formed with said handle and said bla e.

ARNOLD .SCHZXRER.

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